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Record Nr.

UNINA9910956003003321

Autore

Riabchuk Mykola

Titolo

At the Fence of Metternich's Garden : Essays on Europe, Ukraine, and Europeanization / / Mykola Riabchuk, Andreas Umland

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hannover, : ibidem, 2021

ISBN

9783838274843

3838274849

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (259 pages)

Collana

Ukrainian Voices ; 5

Disciplina

947.7

Soggetti

Ukraine

History

Geschichte

Europe

Europa

Politics

Politik

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-250) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Introduction -- Part One European Dreams -- (1) Behind the Fence -- (2) Barbecue in the European Garden -- (3) Ambiguous Borderland -- (4) 'Eurasian' Othering -- (5) Metaphors of Betrayal -- Part Two Maidan and Beyond -- (6) Not-So-Unexpected Nation -- (7) Pluralism by Default -- (8) What's Left of Orange Ukraine? -- (9) The End of Post-Soviet Pragmatism? -- (10) After the Crash -- (11) Maidan 2.0. -- (12) The Fourteenth Worst Place -- (13) Dying for 'Europe' -- (14) Crying Wolf -- (15) Ukraine's Ordeal -- (16) Passions over Federalization

(17) On the "Wrong" and "Right" Ukrainians -- (18) Turn to the Right-and Back -- Part Three Lessons of Solidarity -- (19) My Polish Schism -- (20) A Fortress of Rules -- (21) Repossessions -- (22) Eight Jews in Search of a Grandfather -- (23) How I Became a 'Czechoslovak' -- (24) On Bridges and Walls -- (25) An Incident -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This collection of essays reflects the personal experience of a Ukrainian intellectual engaged, since his Soviet-time youth, in a painstaking but



fascinating process of the both cultural and political ‘Europeanization’ of his country. The title refers, ironically, to the notorious Chancellor Metternich’s quip that Asia presumably begins at the eastern fence of his garden (or, as another apocryphal version maintains, at the eastern end of the Viennese Landstrasse). This is a story of both exclusion and inclusion, of walls and fences, but also of a longing for freedom and a quest for solidarity. It is a book on different ways of being a ‘European’—at both the collective and individual level,—despite various challenges or, perhaps, thanks to them.